Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 29: Responding to the ongoing debate on the role played by a few important individuals and certain landmark events that led to the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus as shown in the movie “Kashmir Files”, Brig Anil Gupta (retd) has stated that what happened in Kashmir during that period was part of a well scripted ploy written, directed and enacted by those forces whose singular aim was to launch religious Jihad in Kashmir.
The script began to unfold in the Summer of 1931 with none other than the Sheikh Abdullah as the major player who founded Muslim Reading Room Group with a minor role being played by Abdul Qadir whose fiery speech against the Hindu Maharaja in an event organised by the former under the banner of the Muslim Reading Room Group sowed the seeds of communal hatred between the Hindus and Muslims.
Sheikh wanted to rule a Muslim Kashmir and hence launched the Quit Kashmir movement which was ostensibly a warning for the Hindus to quit Kashmir. While leading the Quit Kashmir movement he minced no words while demeaning the Hindus and exhorted the Kashmiri Muslims to rise against the “tyranny of the Dogras.”
The script continued to unfold with a change in players over the time. The focus of the script though remained unchanged. What has been shown in Kashmir Files is no fiction but just a part of the tragic events.
The Rubiya Sayeed kidnap case was a part of the same script aimed at strengthening the hands of the Jihadis, he said. Did Dr Farooq Abdullah who now claims to have opposed the release of the terrorists not know that Rubiya was kept by the kidnappers in a luxurious house in Srinagar itself. Most of the Kashmiris with their ears to the ground knew and murmured that “kidnapping” was a drama and she was shifted to a house called Girdhar Niwas, owned by a Kashmiri Hindu family earlier, and later sold to the then Chairman of J&K Bank in early 80s. The house is located on the track that connects Brain and Nishat Power House. Thus, both Mufti Mohd Sayeed and Dr Farooq Abdullah were enacting their scripted roles for achieving the ultimate aim. What happened thereafter and the mayhem that led to the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus is well known. Brig Gupta cautioned the Gupkaris that by trying to change the narrative by bringing in extraneous issues, they are further alienating the people of India who are shell-shocked after learning the truth.
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